“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” (Psalm 2:3.)
This scripture was fulfilled as God permitted the army of Nebuchadnezzar to overrun Israel, helpless as a rudderless ship in a hurricane, and to sweep its inhabitants through the imprisoning walls of a strange city in a godless land.
Nebuchadnezzar’s principle objective was to indoctrinate the young, preferably the most promising, influential among the citizens of Israel, to make them forget their identity, nationality, culture — most of all their God — to assimilate them into Babylon’s globalist utopia.
Nebuchadnezzar’s whole purpose was to break the connection between God and His people (“Let us break their bands asunder”), to replace that connection with another based upon an intelligence separate from God.
(History is replete with such scenarios, and is repeating itself right here and now in the hearts of America’s young and most malleable citizens. many of whom are menpleasers who do not know how to say “No!” to Nebuchadnezzar. MENPLEASER, according to Webster’s 1828 edition: “One who is solicitous to please men, rather than to please God, by obedience to His commands.”)
But what was the outcome of the king’s attempt to indoctrinate Daniel and his friends?
As Mrs. Eddy says in her first edition of SH, “Soul and body are inseparable and eternal; if one is indestructible, so is the other. Understanding this, exempts man from” every form of human bondage and captivity. (Page 399.)
“But the LORD shall endure for ever . . . ” “Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” (Psalms 9:7, 46:2)
Like the eternal reliability and unchangeability of both the principle of mathematics and the mathematical constants that reflect its inalterability, it is the nature of God to remain unchangeably related to His image and likeness: His witness. Therefore, it follows that God’s image and likeness “endure forever” as well, naturally reflecting that unchangeability in its relation to Him as witness. This witness is what Daniel and his three friends so faithfully bore.
“For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people . . . Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand . . . To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron.” (Psalm 149.)
Thus will the intentions of antichrist be foiled, but only as the cords connecting the hearts of God’s people to Himself remain unbroken.
For King Nebuchadnezzar ended up connecting his own heart to the one and only God, commanding all citizens of his empire to be bound in such chains as well.